Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes the U.S. operation involving Venezuela's leaders, arguing it contradicts the 'America First' agenda, and highlights her opposition to government policies she believes betray American interests. She points to focus on domestic issues such as jobs, housing, and healthcare.
, saying on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that the operation was part of “the same Washington playbook that we are so sick and tired of that doesn’t serve the American people.” Greene argued that President Donald Trump and his administration “campaigned on Make America Great Again, that we thought was putting America first.
”“I want to see domestic policy be the priority that helps Americans afford life after four disastrous years of the Biden administration,” she told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, pointing to policies to prioritize jobs, housing and health care. Her comments come as lawmakers grapple with the operation that captured Maduro and his wife and brought them to the U.S., with lawmakers’ support largely falling along party lines. Greene has previously opposed Trump administration policies that she argued contradicted “America First” principles.“Our neighborhood is right here in the 50 United States, not in the Southern Hemisphere,” she said. On Saturday, Trump was asked by a reporter how running Venezuela aligns with his “America First” agenda, after he said earlier that the U.S. would “Maduro arrives in New York as Trump says U.S. will govern Venezuela until there's a ‘proper transition' “I think it is because we want to surround ourselves with good neighbors,” Trump told the reporter. “We want to surround ourselves with stability. We want to surround ourselves with energy. We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves. We need that for the world.”that Americans’ “disgust with our own government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it.”Greene’s last day in Congress will be on Monday. She announced her resignation in November after a public falling-out with Trump, despite having previously been a loyal backer.interview that “for an ‘America First’ president, the No. 1 focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t.”
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